Re: CarrierIQ Software and Forth

From	Dennis Ruffer <daruffer@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: CarrierIQ Software and Forth
Date	2011-12-25 12:58 -0800
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On Saturday, December 24, 2011 5:19:56 PM UTC-8, Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Marcel Hendrix wrote:
> > 'Easily made run?' Are there cellphones with
> > 
> > 1. x86 32/64 bit hardware
> 
> No, but ARM hardware, and anybody who seriously wants to sell a Forth 
> compiler in today's embedded system world already has an ARM target (VFX 
> Forth has an ARM target, SwiftForth has one, and Gforth runs on anything 
> that is a GCC target, anyways).
> 
> > 2. a provision to accept and run a user-supplied binary in a standard
> > or
> >    open format (e.g. .exe or .dll)
> 
> Yes.  Android is Linux.  It took me a day to get Gforth running there, 
> and most of that day was to improve the cross compilation support.  Once 
> it did cross compile correctly, it worked out of the box on my Android 
> phone.  No debugging necessary, it just worked.  I was impressed.
> 
> And for "the other cellphone": iOS is FreeBSD.  I would not develop for 
> iOS, due to Apples knee-jerk policy about free software and especially 
> interpreters, which apparently they forget completely when they install 
> spyware (Carrier IQ was part of iOS until version 5).
> 
> > 3. open and documented APIs (e.g. C-runtime library, SDL graphics and
> > of course
> >    phone-specific stuff)?
> 
> Yes.  Android is Linux, it is well documented, it has a libc (though not 
> glibc), it has OpenGL ES (not SDL), and even though the "official" way 
> to program it is Dalvik, Dalvik uses C libraries for all the grunt work.  
> iOS's lowlevel parts are almost the same, though on top certainly there 
> is Carbon and Objective-C.
> 
> > A specific pointer would be appreciated. Given the Windows 8 hoopla
> > I was expecting something to *become* possible, but searching for this
> > kind of technical information is extremely tedious. (Especially when
> > one isn't really interested in application smart-phone stuff).
> 
> Oh yes, it took me just a day to port Gforth, but it took me over a week 
> to find all the lose ends of the strings to pull to know where to look.  
> The Android NDK comes with examples which don't compile, and all the 
> stuff that directs you towards Dalvik is misleading.  You don't want to 
> go through Dalvik if you port a Forth to Android.  You want a bog-
> standard Linux libc program, you want to run it in a terminal session 
> (androidterm/ssh/telnet), and thus you want the NDK, and to get a normal 
> cross compiler out of the NDK is another step, which is not explained 
> properly.  Look into gforth/arch/arm/android/config.sh (from the CVS 
> repository) for more informations, the first few lines (with comments) 
> describe how to generate a "feels normal" GCC cross compiler suite.
> 
> To make a more complete system than just a terminal Forth (i.e. one you 
> can develop programs the user interfaces with), you probably have to 
> take androidterm (it's open source, it's a rather small program), and 
> extend it so that all the stuff you absolutely need Dalvik for are done 
> there (like the interface to the keyboard, maybe some way to create 
> Dalvik GUIs from the Forth system).
> 
> -- 
> Bernd Paysan
> "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
> http://bernd-paysan.de/

Bernd, did you check your research into the gforth cvs?

If this information that CarrierIQ used Forth gets noticed, it would be opportune to be able to point people to something that could be used as a stepping stone.  It might even give us some relevancy again in that world.

I even ran into a case where this would have been useful this last week.  I was at a factory in Shanghai and they ran into a slow eMMC issue.  It would have been easy to demonstrate the problem in Forth, but that is no longer my job.  The economics have changed to the ODM being responsible for delivering working units and they decide how best to accomplish that.  I simply make sure that they do it right and give them clues on how to do it better.  Forth would be a great clue, if I had something to point at.

An Android apk would be even better, but one step at a time.

DaR

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        Re: CarrierIQ Software and Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2011-12-24 14:56 +0100
          Re: CarrierIQ Software and Forth mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) - 2011-12-24 17:53 +0200
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          Re: CarrierIQ Software and Forth Trey Boudreau <trey.boudreau@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 07:36 -0800
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